Something for your bucket list and a track meet.

I bet you can guess what my favorite thing was at our school’s carnival last night…. (you are welcome for the blurry photo)

I officially had the fastest time of the night, I promise I am not even exaggerating and I had some tough competition. I have mastered the art of eating donuts and practice nearly every day. It took me three bites and I am quite proud of myself.

Another favorite activity was throwing pies at my bosses….man does that feel good:)

And of course the food was delicious…my school does food right. You have got to try Utah scones before you die, they are basically fluffy, fried pieces of dough that you smother in honey butter. We also had soup and homemade root beer.

It was a really fun night and made me love my job more than ever.

Okay, so time for what I am beyond excited for today:

Miles Batty (a BYU student) will be shooting for a sub 4 minute mile. He has already broken the 4 minute mile and is the current collegiate 1 mile indoor record holder with a time of 3:54.54 but this time he is trying to do it in Utah. He will be the second person EVER to accomplish this because of the high elevation! I seriously can’t wait to go watch, watching running is just as fun as running.

Here is Batty breaking the NCAA indoor 1 mile record.

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Long run or race this weekend?

What are you most excited about doing today?

Have you ever ran on an indoor track? What do you think your max mileage would be that you could do before going crazy?

-I bet I could distract myself for 10 miles but after that I would go crazy.

Erica

8 miles today and maybe isn’t the most exciting, but what I am most excited about. :)
Grabbing a coffee with two girlfriends later today.
Dessert last night was a white chocolate macademian nut cookie the size of a pancake.

Holli

Ummmm…because of all your doughnut talk I was having an intense craving for one Thursday night. Sooooo…..Friday morning there I was at Dunkin Donuts getting my fix of the warm, soft doughy goodness. Yum!!!!!!!!

Lauren

The carnival looks so fun! I ran on an indoor track at west point military base in high school for our winter track meets. The longest event I ever completed was the mile. I have a feeling you could run way more than 10 miles on one especially after your epic 26 miler on a treadmill!

Luv2Run

Hey Janae! Haha looks like a fun time!! :D I have a question for you (And anyone else who wants to answer ) Every time i go on my long run i get huge blisters on the arches of my feet…any ideas on how to avoid this?? I’ve tried moleskin but it doesn’t work.

Have you tried out different socks? Like different brands or thickness? Make sure there is no cotton in them too. You could also try putting body glide on your feet. My husband does this with good results. Good luck!

Amanda

That used to happen to me! I used body glide and got socks made for running from Target. They are still cotton and not very expensive at all (I think a 6 packs was about $8) but they are tighter at the arches and eliminated all my blister problems! Good luck!

I used to get really torn up in my “arch” area (I’m pretty flat footed though). I found out that I over-pronate a lot, so my foot was collapsing inwards, and that area of my foot was rubbing too much…when I got better shoes for the way I run, it stopped happening.

Michele C

Wow that carnival looks so fun! Donut eating contests are the best!
I’m running my second marathon tomorrow and there’s an 80% chance of rain. :( In other news, I’m hoping to go shopping with my husband today.
Dessert last night was my nephews bday cake.
Have a great day!

Very cool, I hope he can do it!
I have run a half marathon on an indoor track (around a speed skating oval), and they also have a marathon there. It was surprisingly less boring than I thought it would be, but hard on the legs!
I had an ice cream cookie sundae last night. Mmmmm!

I LOVE to watch running. I can watch races where I don’t know anybody and still love it. I watch races on the internet. I’m just a nerd. I wish I could watch that mile, that would be awesome!

I ran indoor track in college. I’ve raced a 5K (25 laps on that particular track…the ones I ran on ranged from 160m-200m) It really didn’t seem that bad, because I was in the race mode, but just to run, I don’t think I’d make it very long with all the turns.

I just discovered that our Wal-mart now carries pints of TCBY yogurt so we had Chocolate Chunk Cookie Dough Frozen Yogurt…it was yummy :)

I just have a random observation. I moved to New Orleans from New England and was surprised at the amount of fried food served here. But I swear Utah has NOLA beat to death! Is frying very common in Utah? When I read blogs from Utah I feel like a fried foods are featured a lot! I’d starve to death…I don’t like the texture of fried things. Ha.
Go sub-4 dude, that is awesome!

I had some Mochi, Japanese sticky rice roll with some sweet sesame mixture inside :) It was Delish!!
I’ve never been good at eating donuts off of strings (or whatever you call it..), looks like you had a great time!

In South Dakota where I grew up we ate fry bread with butter and honey too. It was called Indian Fry bread.
Here in Arizona it is called Sopaipilla.
I don’t really care what it is called. It is awesome!

Jill

Race this weekend! A 10k but seeing as how I’m 3.5 months pregnant and at the mercy of my bladder I may just take it easy.

I didn’t have dessert last night! Unless u count a handful of jellybeans before bed a dessert lol.
I have never run on a track before. I’d probably go crazy at the 1 mile mark as I can’t even handle treadmill running. I love running outdoors too much!!!